EUGENE – After last weekend’s 4-1 trip to Las Vegas, the University of Oregon softball team (8-3) claimed its fourth straight top-10 national ranking in the regular season’s second editions released Tuesday.

Dropping two spots in both the NFCA and USA Softball editions, No. 9/11 UO was the third-highest ranked team in the Pac-12 this week behind a pair of fellow WCWS returnees - No. 3/3 Arizona State and No. 8/8 California.

Oregon was one of seven league members that ranked top 25 nationally this week with No. 14/19 Arizona, No. 16/13 UCLA, No. 20/17 Stanford and No. 22/22 Washington. An eighth league team (Oregon State) received votes in the NFCA poll.

More information on the USA Softball and NFCA polls are available at the http://www.usasoftball.com/folders.asp?uid=6632 and https://nfca.org/index.php/component/nfca/?top25=1&list=1&year=2012&pdiv=div1 URL addresses.

In last week’s Easton Desert Classic hosted by UNLV, UO scored a pair of shutouts over Louisiana-Monroe (4-0) and Cal State Fullerton (6-0), and also topped NCAA tourney returnee Long Beach State (10-1) and Utah Valley (9-1 (6 innings)). Its only loss was a 6-5 decision to then-No. 20 Hawai’i.

This week, the Ducks look ahead to five games in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic near Palm Springs. UO faces Virginia (4-4) on Friday; Cal Poly (2-8) and Nebraska (9-1) on Saturday; and UNLV (5-5) and San Diego State (6-4) on Sunday.